Torch Group’s senior leadership team brings decades of executive talent search experience in various roles and industries to ensure A PERFECT FIT™ every time.
This team developed our proprietary, proven, and repeatable 8-step Signature Search Process™, which includes our competency- and values-based video interviews to further understand situational behaviors that provide deep candidate insights. As a result, this method ensures a more productive, longer-term employee relationship within each client’s unique culture.
With human resources and talent acquisition training at Fortune 500 companies, our consultative search team has gained invaluable experience, acumen, and critical candidate insights that has enabled us to access and present better, more-invested candidates. And with three decades of executive search experience and first-hand knowledge of the marketing, sales, product management, digital, and communications functions, we are able to reduce wasted resources and effort.
Specialties: Food & Beverage, Foodservice, Retail & Consumer, Marketing & Sales
Ron is widely respected as a leading executive search consultant to the food & beverage, food service, food equipment, and hospitality industries. He is well known for his distinguished career in consumer products and packaged goods marketing. Prior to starting Torch Group, he held marketing and sales positions in Fortune 500 consumer products, foodservice, and B2B corporations and their marketing agencies. He created award-winning advertising and promotion campaigns for Seagram’s Wine Coolers, Pepsi-Cola, A.1. Steak Sauce, Grey Poupon Mustard, AT&T, Duracell Batteries, and Walt Disney Studios, among many others. Consequently, his work garnered prestigious industry awards, including a Golden Effie for the renowned Grey Poupon “Rolls Royce” advertising campaign. Ron earned an M.B.A. in marketing from Indiana University’s Kelly School of Business, where he graduated with Honors. Most notably, he was named Outstanding M.B.A. The consummate search consultant, Ron brings a deep expertise to every executive search engagement. He is a popular speaker on a myriad of search topics. Above all, he is a respected and trusted talent adviser to a number of long-standing, well-established clients.
Contact Ron directly at RonTorch@TorchGroup.com or 440-519-1822 x101.
Specialties: Human Resources, Search and Talent Evaluation
Michele is responsible for overseeing the firm’s comprehensive Signature Search Process™, shares in the management of the firm’s core team of search consultants and researchers, and leads its internal Human Resource (HR) function. She is responsible for managing and conducting the interview process for high-profile clients and their candidates. Her undergraduate and graduate academic experience in the social sciences and her extensive HR experience in Russell 1000 and Fortune 500 companies give her unique perspective for each engagement. Before co-founding Torch Group, she worked for consumer products companies, service providers, and B2B manufacturers. She manages Torch Group’s staff of account managers, executive recruiters, researchers, and coordinators. Michele has responsibility for internal hiring, training, policy making, and staff development. Michele directs the firm’s comprehensive recruiting process. She conducts and oversees in-depth, competency-based behavioral interviews. Above all, she assures that each client receives only candidates that fit all of the job requirements. Similarly, she ensures the candidate possesses the right set of soft skills to mesh well in the client’s culture. In her three decades with Torch Group, she has successfully placed hundreds of executive-level professionals.
Contact Michele by emailing her at MTorch@TorchGroup.com or calling her at 440-519-1822 x102.